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Bob Cantu hasn't set foot in the Sports Arena since USC last played a game there, in February 2006. It'll look a lot different, at least on the inside, when the 11th-year assistant coach returns tonight for USC's game against UCLA (7:30 p.m., Prime Ticket).

The one-time home of Trojans basketball has served as the temporary home of the Bruins while Pauley Pavilion undergoes a badly needed and long-overdue renovation. To make UCLA feel more at home, the place has been decked out in blue and gold.

Cantu knows what it's like to dress up the Sports Arena. He has first-hand experience.

"Our staff painted the Sports Arena cardinal," Cantu recalled Tuesday. "The paint was so old that (former coach Henry) Bibby had the staff go and buy paint and paint the Sports Arena ourselves. We actually did that."